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by Changing Realities participants - Ana Q Emdad and Faith with Uisce Jordan  |  12th December 2022

Participants in the Changing Realities project share their involvement in the book, A Year Like No Other, and reflect on the impact COVID-19 had on care givers and low-income families. …Read more

Leave no one behind
by Stewart Lansley  |  9th December 2022

Stewart Lansley looks at the rise of poverty in the UK and shows how a strategy to tackle widespread impoverishment must recognise the critical effect of the process of wealth accumulation at the top on low incomes at the bottom. …Read more

Migration camp
by Sukhmani Khorana  |  8th December 2022

Sukhmani Khorana, author of 'Mediated Emotions of Migration', shows how migrants are routinely dehumanied by politicians and highlights how mainstream media outlets, including the ideologically left-wing, must do better in showing refugees as thinking, feeling subjects with agency.…Read more

Strikes
by Bob Smale  |  7th December 2022

Following on from Martin Parker's article on university strikes yesterday, Bob Smale looks at the strikes more broadly, the background to industrial unrest and how the government's current economic difficulties are to a significant extent of their own making.…Read more

Strikes
by Martin Parker  |  6th December 2022

Martin Parker looks at the expansion of UK higher education and suggests that while access to education has improved, it is now based on a market that treats students as bags of cash and academics as the labour necessary to extract the value from the students.…Read more

Twitter HQ
by David Beer  |  2nd December 2022

Dave Beer looks at the latest twists in the Twitter soap opera and considers how tech platforms influence and envision an imagined future. …Read more

Snake
by Mo Stewart  |  1st December 2022

Mo Stewart, author of a recent article in Justice, Power and Resistance, joins those deriding Matt Hancock in the jungle and argues that it’s not a laughing matter when thousands have died from the policies he helped to create. …Read more

Black crystal
by Luke Billingham and Keir Irwin-Rogers  |  28th November 2022

This policy briefing covers policy recommendations that focus on improving the lives of young people with the aim of reducing youth violence.…Read more

Three women laughing
by FearLess  |  24th November 2022

Tomorrow is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and we're beginning the 16 Days of Activism by highlighting FearLess, a charity tackling abuse, sexual violence, and stalking. …Read more

by Martin Parker and Kat Burger  |  21st November 2022

Katharina Burger and Martin Parker look at how Bristol has localised the UN Sustainable Development Goals and how they can be leveraged to facilitate strategic change towards sustainability in a city environment. …Read more